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Pop goes the avant-garde : experimental theatre in contemporary China
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Pop goes the avant-garde : experimental theatre in contemporary China / Rosella Ferrari.
ISBN
9780857420459
0857420453
Published
London : Seagull Books, 2012, ©2011.
Physical Description
xviii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2013
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-344) and index.
Contents
Prologue The avant-garde in the twenty-first century: the return of the living dead?
Introduction : The avant-garde in China : contexts, concepts, chronologies
Behind the red curtain : experimental theatre in China after Mao
Performing dissent and marginality : the 1990s
Avant-garde, arrière-garde, or pop avant-garde? : experimental theatre into the new millennium
An absurd journey to the west : European theatre in post-Tiananmen China
Uneasy homecomings : parody, deconstruction and the subversive rewriting of tradition
Intercutural hybrids, pop strategies and "Meng-style delight' : toward a new concept of the avant-garde
Epilogue : From pop- to trans-Chinese avant-garde(s)?
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